PercentGroupSeparator Property

NumberFormatInfo.PercentGroupSeparator Property

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Gets or sets the string that separates groups of digits to the left of the decimal in percent values.

Namespace:  System.Globalization
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public string PercentGroupSeparator { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: System.String
The string that separates groups of digits to the left of the decimal in percent values. The default for InvariantInfo is ",".

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentNullException

The property is being set to null.

InvalidOperationException

The property is being set and the NumberFormatInfo object is read-only.

The following example demonstrates the effect of changing the PercentGroupSeparator property.


using System;
using System.Globalization;

class Example
{
   public static void Demo(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock outputBlock)
   {
      // Gets a NumberFormatInfo associated with the en-US culture.
      NumberFormatInfo nfi = new CultureInfo("en-US").NumberFormat;

      // Displays a value with the default separator (",").
      Double myInt = 1234.5678;
      outputBlock.Text += String.Format(myInt.ToString("P", nfi)) + "\n";

      // Displays the same value with a blank as the separator.
      nfi.PercentGroupSeparator = " ";
      outputBlock.Text += String.Format(myInt.ToString("P", nfi)) + "\n";
   }
}
/* 
This example produces the following output.
      123,456.78 %
      123 456.78 %
*/


Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

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